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A Case for Comparative Entrepreneurship: Assessing the Relevance of Culture

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The authors examined the relationship between culture and four personality characteristics commonly associated with entrepreneurial motivation and demonstrated systematic variation in entrepreneurial characteristics across cultures, raising important questions about the boundaries of international entrepreneurship research and the challenges of transcending them.
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As international entrepreneurship gains momentum as a significant and relevant field of research, scholars need to address methodological issues that can facilitate the triangulation of research results. In this paper, we examine the relationship between culture and four personality characteristics commonly associated with entrepreneurial motivation. By demonstrating systematic variation in entrepreneurial characteristics across cultures, we raise important questions about the boundaries of international entrepreneurship research and the challenges of transcending them.

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Cultural Prototypes of the Successful Entrepreneur: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Ireland, Guatemala, and China

TL;DR: The first stage of the E-WORLD project as mentioned in this paper was used to collect data on perceptions of entrepreneurs in Ireland, Guatemala, and China, and the data were used to identify entrepreneurial prototypes in each country that provide and initial examination into how individuals in each countries conceptualize the entrepreneur in that culture.
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Politics and Power in the Multinational Corporation: Subsidiary manager socio-political interaction: the impact of host country culture

TL;DR: In this article, a behavioral logic is used to understand the dynamics of subsidiary role development in a multinational corporation, and the role of micro-political negotiations between subsidiary and headquarters as an important determinant of role development.
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Time allocation behaviours of entrepreneurs: the impact of individual entrepreneurial orientation

TL;DR: In this article, the influence of individual entrepreneurial orientation (IEO) on the allocation of entrepreneurs' time in entrepreneurial ventures is studied. But the authors focus on the problem of time allocation.

Generational value shift in the Sinebrychoff family : A studyof late-empire Russian capitalists

TL;DR: Nemilentsev and Jyväskylä as mentioned in this paper analyzed family values that constitute the family entrepreneurship culture on the example of the Sinebrychoff family.
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An Empirical Study on the Relationship between Entrepreneur's Traits and Entrepreneurial Success

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors empirically studied the relationship between Entrepreneur's traits and entrepreneurial success using structural equation model based on 153 valid surveys and found that innovativeness, locus of control, risk-taking and need for achievement are all positively associated with entrepreneurial success.
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Culture′s Consequences: International Differences in Work-Related Values

TL;DR: In his book Culture's Consequences, Geert Hofstede proposed four dimensions on which the differences among national cultures can be understood: Individualism, Power Distance, Uncertainty Avoidance and Masculinity as mentioned in this paper.
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The theory of economic development

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Clarifying the Entrepreneurial Orientation Construct and Linking It To Performance

TL;DR: In this article, a contingency framework for investigating the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and firm performance is proposed. But the authors focus on the business domain and do not consider the economic domain.
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The Achieving Society

TL;DR: This paper argued that cultural customs and motivations, especially the motivation for achievement, are the major catalysts of economic growth and proposed a plan to accelerate economic growth in developing countries by encouraging and supplementing their achievement motives through mobilizing the greater achievement resources of developed countries.